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Islam is a fucking flawed religion, much like Socialism is a flawed form of government.

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For me it was the Battles of Baidi on Eternal Empire. Hell, the whole Circum Chu war on that site was frigging epic.

The back ground behind the war was this: There were two factions in the neighboring regions of Bashu and Chu, named Danzhong and Chou, each occupying sections of their respective regions.

At the time, I was a low-ranking officer in the Chou Army. The Chou kingdom's power base was in Changsha and Jiangling in the Jingnan province. Danzhong was holding the city of Zitong for it's capitol, yet its main centers of industry were in Jiangzhou and Chengdu.

Danzhong's ruler was a ruthless and aggressive guy, he took control of the sections of Yizhou below the Qishan mountains within a week or so. Then he pushed north into Wudu and Hanzhong and then eastwards into Shangyong, Xiangyang and finally Xinye. At the same time Danzhong was expanding outward in nearly every direction, we were solidifying our hold on Jingnan and Chu as a whole. From Changsha and Jiangling we subjugated Wuling, Lingling and Guiyang as well as Jiaozhou.

Right after we united Jingnan, I was assigned to a task force based out of Wuling charged with fortifying our positions along the Yangtze River. We built forts at Hua Rong, Yi Ling, and Yi Dao and Gong An. After finishing that I was assigned to assist in the taking of the Jiangxia prefecture and Yi Yang with it. That was my first battle ever, and much like the tutorials on a video game it was quick and painless. After adding that section of land to our dominion, the stage was set for a massive war in the Chu region over the Jingbei province. Tensions ran high, yet war didn't break out immediately, though everyone was clamoring for a taste of each other's blood. Nasty words were exchanged and people worked themselves up in preparation for the coming war.

In fact, war in Chu did not break out until after both sides had finished claiming their respective proxy lands, ours in Chaisang and Huainan, and their's in Nanzhong. We began to fortify our borders with Danzhong heavily, in preparation for a frontal assault by the numerically superior enemy. Our bases at Yi Dao and Yi Ling were expanded to include naval facilities as well as reinforced stone walls. It was actually ridiculous, those fortresses could, and actually were acting as stand-alone staging grounds for our army.

The war broke out in the form of a border scuffle between a Danzhong agitator and one of our work units at Changban Po. They declared war under the pretense of "Wanton Border Encroachment" and we knew it was fucking on. The site for the next two months practically revolved around nothing but the Circum Chu war. I was stationed in Jiangxia while all of this was happening, and when the order to move out against Danzhong fortifications on the north bank of the Xiang River it was no surprise. The Chou Army's 3rd Division as it was called, was galvanized for a blistering blitzkrieg against Jingbei. Of the 55,000 that set out (ALL our forces committed to Jingbei, not just from Jiangxia), only a meager 29,000 would survive.

Our first operation was to support the Chou Army's 1st Division based in Jiangling in taking out the immediate threat to our dominion, Xiangyang. Our objective was the capture of Xinye and its fortress of Fancheng as a preliminary feint on Xiangyang from the North. The goal was to draw troops from Xiangyang to Xinye to relieve their rather small garrison there and thus weaken their position at Xiangyang when the main thrust came from our army at Jiangling. We split the 18,000 we had with us into 12,000 and 6,000 with the smaller force attacking the enemy garrison at Fancheng. I was participating in the siege of Fancheng as a prelude to the attack on Xinye by our main unit.

We took the castle without much resistance, scattering the remnants of the approximately 2,500 defense force across the country side. After that we dug in preparation to repel or at the very least stall any reinforcements Xiangyang might be sending. The main unit was suffering some casualties at Xinye and requested that about 1,000 men from Fancheng (now manned with around 4,000 men) aid the siege on Xinye. I got the short end of the stick and ended up participating in a rough siege battle that lasted three days. As predicted, Danzhong sent reinforcements to Xinye from Xiangyang but we managed to hold them off at Fancheng and secure our flank. Meanwhile, the 1st Division struck Xiangyang and routed the enemy general there. Xinye fell not long after that. Next up was Shangyong, we took the city with ease, but made a big fucking mistake by trying to attack Hanzhong using the mountain passes.

We took humongous losses in this battle and eventually said fuck it. We drove them out of Jingbei and Chu, for now, and decided to cut our losses and just maintain our new dominion.

Danzhong surprisingly held off on an immediate counter attack. We never found out exactly why, but the rumor was that we caught them off guard and wiped out a good portion of their forces. In reality, they had only lost around 40,000 men in the entire Jingbei campaign. It was more than we lost, but in proportion to each kingdom's total troop strength, we ended up getting the short end of the stick.

The 1st Division was left to defend Jingzhou while the 2ndDivision was absorbed into the first, leaving its remnants to defend our eastern borders. The 3rd Division was based out of Wuling, and I was reassigned to it following the culmination of the Jingbei Campaign.

Here's where things got interesting.

Danzhong was in the midst of a rebellion in Nanzhong, supposedly dissatisfied military governors who had seized control of Jian Ning, Yunnan and Xing Gu. While we never had any overt involvement with the rebels, there was no doubt we were covertly tied to their uprising. However, the details were, and still are out of my realm of knowledge.

While they fought in Nanzhong, we moved against Yizhou. Our aims were to divide their forces and use the distraction caused by the rebellion to make a lightning push against Zitong and force them into capitulation. A great plan by any means, and we executed it well, but material shortages were working against us every step of the way. In the end, we only got as far as Jiangzhou, which is on the southern ends of the Zitong prefecture. The only reason we couldn't continue on is because we wasted too much time and far too many resources fighting at Yongan.

After we had set out with our fleet from the bases of Yi Dao and Yi Ling we made our way to Mo Gui and Jian Ping, right by the fortress of Baidi and all three of which where below the city of Yongan situated on the slopes of Mount Wu Xia. We overran Mo Gui and crushed enemy resistance at Jian Ping. After a brief siege on Baidi the garrison there surrendered. We dug in and prepared to attack Yongan, but a large, and I mean LARGE group of reinforcements came from Yizhou to drive us back.

Thus begins the Battles of Baidi. The Battles of Baidi were a series of four separate engagements centered on Baidi and the two towns by it during Winter. We held our ground with 22,000 men and around 550 ships against an enemy force of 50,000 men and 200 ships. The first two engagements were mainly naval ones, as the armies of Danzhong attempted to seize Baidi by water. We repulsed and later destroyed their smaller navy which forced them to try and attack us through the mountains. Naturally we set up shop in the mountains and on the plains between them and Baidi and the water. While they couldn't bring their navy to bare anymore, neither could we as they hadn't dug sufficient canals for traversing those lands away from the main waterways.

We took them out in the mountains and repulsed a rather desperate attempt to traverse the open plains to reach Baidi. They almost managed to take the fort, but they got too close to the navy, so we gave them a healthy bombardment and sent them packing to their camp on the opposing side of the mountains. The fourth engagement was more of the same, but this time we were able to mount the death toll on them by using rock slides and fire attacks to hem them in, and then land a separate unit behind them to crush their operational HQ. It worked, but as effectively as we had hoped, and they still had us outnumbered. But they had expended their food stores and were forced to retreat. At the end of the four engagements, we had approx. 4,500 men and 300 ships to their approx. 17,000 men. While they couldn't fight us any longer at Baidi, we weren't in any shape to pursue them.

We got a much needed morale boost with the reinforcements from Jiangling and Xiangyang the following Spring and pushed on Yongan. We settled the score with the 17,000+ men from the Battles of Baidi and took the city. However, by this time the rebellion in Nanzhong had been suppressed, and with it our hopes of keeping their attention divided.

We struck Jiangzhou and took the city, but had to retreat. There was no way we could take out 80,000+ men in Zitong & Chengdu with only 33,000 in a siege battle. We retreated back to Yi Ling and Yi Dao and dug in for the inevitable counter attack, but not before burning parts of Jiangzhou and Yongan to the ground.

We were thoroughly destroyed at both Yi Dao and Yi Ling, which split our forces up at Jiangling and Wuling. The enemy came at us with full force and besieged Jiangling and Changban Po while totally overrunning Jingnan. My death came in battle at Changban Po while surrounded by the enemy. Jiangling fell soon afterwards, and that was pretty much the end of the war.

I was dead, but Chou lived on to be beaten all the back to Shouchun. It was an ignoble defeat on all accounts, as we were defeated by the Danzhong war machine rather than the prowess of their generals (which was markedly lackluster).

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Today is going to suck hardcore. Maybe accepting this fact will make it not so bad?

8:30am class on just a few hours of sleep.
Philosophy quiz on material fallacies. I didn;t study because I was too busy cramming for..
ART HISTORY FINAL.
No, you don't understand, this class kills me. KILLS. ME.
And the final is today.
I have so many notes.
And at least 8 different cathedrals.
And I need to know the difference betwixt a tympanum and a tablinum.
I keep forgetting the word tablinum.
Among many such other things.
Then after that is work 4-6.
Which doesn't seem like much.
But added to the figures above, just extends my day.
Prolongs my suffering.
But its not over yet.
The art center to paint all my ceramics projects.
And then back to my room to paint my photographs due tomorrow..


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[Chrynos]

Must... Reach... 496...

[Cody Travers]

How about we get to 500?

So that way it's more epic (And I can get more total posts)

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...The thread has a tendency to delete itself, when you go to far. Proboards error. We've lost hundreds of pages of spam that way... very sad.

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